Perhaps this will work:
prompt# strings bogusfile > goodfile
prompt# more goodfile
bogusfile: your broken book
goodfile: the ascii strings readable by the system
Note: you'll lose any formatting, and I can't answer the 'german'
question (I don't know).
Good luck!
On Monday, January 21, 2002, at 02:26 PM, Apostolos Koutropoulos wrote:
>
> I have a unix machine here ;) -- MacOS X he he :-)
> the problem is that I am not a super UNIX guru (I can
> manage, but I dont know all).
> what command would i need to run at the terminal to get my
> file called "german" to do that ?
>
> Also does ASCII, in its specification, supposrt umlauted
> characters ?
>
>
> --- Andrew Beals <bandy_at_cinnamon.com> wrote:
>>
>> No hope of emailing the "file" to a unix box and running
>> the strings program
>> on it to recover what ascii you can?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:13:51 -0800, Apostolos
>> Koutropoulos
>> <admiralak_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The good thing is that I have bookmaker...
>>> the bad thing is that at the moment I dont have the
>> means
>>> to suck those 200 pages (that I painstakingly typed
>> over
>>> the weekend :p) out of that newtonpress file :(
>>> dang diddly dang :(
>>>
>>>
>>> --- Robert Benschop <rbenschop_at_mac.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> on 21-01-2002 7:55, Apostolos Koutropoulos at
>>>> admiralak_at_yahoo.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> An error has occured Newton press must now shut
>> down
>>>>
>>>> I Remember Tom Sheppard (the creator of the IMdB for
>> the
>>>> Newt) saying once
>>>> that Newton Press doesn't handle large files really
>> well
>>>> (understatement)
>>>> Seems like a a good idea to always make your text in
>> the
>>>> app you use for
>>>> that in general, save it and only than transfer it to
>>>> Newton Press.
>>>> (or Bookmaker, which is supposedly quite a bit
>> better)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Robert Benschop
>>>>
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